Henry Thomas Harrison

Henry Thomas Harrison (23 April 1832-28 October 1923) was an actor from Mississippi and a Confederate spy during the American Civil War.

Biography
Henry Thomas Harrison was born in Nashville, Tennessee on 23 April 1832, and he decided to become an actor rather than go to school. Due to his small stature, he did not get many parts as an actor, and he decided to join the Mississippi state militia in the spring of 1861 when the American Civil War broke out. In November 1861, Confederate Secretary of War James Seddon hired him as a spy, and he became a spy for General James Longstreet after April 1863. Harrison was paid in gold, and he spied on the Union Army of the Potomac in June and July 1863, warning Longstreet that the Army of the Potomac was camped just a few miles from the Confederates near Taneytown in Pennsylvania. Harrison's intelligence would lead to the Battle of Gettysburg, and he took up a musket and fought in George Pickett's charge. Harrison would spy on the Union in New York City, although none of his discoveries were as important as the information that he supplied to Longstreet before Gettysburg. Harrison and his family moved to Mexico after the war's end, and he later became a gold prospector in Montana, a Municipal Reform League detective in Ohio, and a pensioner in Kentucky. He died in Covington, Kentucky on 28 October 1923 at the age of 91.